Cerebras
1,027 employees on LinkedIn Β· Public Β· 18 known investors
Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale AI processors and systems for data centers, enabling accelerated AI training and inference at scale. The company serves AI model providers, cloud infrastructure operators, and research institutions.
Also known as Cerebras Systems Β· Cerebras Systems Inc.
Founders & leadership
Investors Β· 18
Also in the syndicate Β· 10
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountIPOMay 2026Source β
- Undisclosed amountSeries GSep 2025Source β
Source: company announcements and press reports β follow each round's link for the claim.
Valuation Β· disclosed
Disclosed eventsSource: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed β follow each entry's link for the claim.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Cerebras went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors Β· 9
by search overlap
Companies competing with Cerebras for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Non-dilutive funding Β· 3 SBIR/STTR awards
Federal grants β no equity taken| Agency | Phase | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of DefenseSpecial Operations Command | Phase II | 2023 | $1.8M |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase II | 2021 | $750K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase I | 2020 | $50K |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts β non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.
Timeline Β· 22
launches, deals, and filings$1B source β
AWS listed as a major customer signed in 2026; inference workload split across AWS Trainium and the Cerebras CS-3 connected by EFA.
Wikipedia lists OpenAI as a major customer signed in 2026; OpenAI holds warrants to purchase 33.4 million shares subject to purchases of compute capacity. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is offered in Ultrafast mode on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens/sec.
AMD Helios and the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine to be combined for high-throughput prefill with token generation.
CS-4 announced as a rack-scale solution delivering up to 30x faster inference compared to GPUs, designed for hyperscale deployment.
$1.1B source β
Cerebras announced rapid datacenter expansion across North America and Europe, alongside integrations powering Meta's Llama API, Perplexity, Mistral, Hugging Face and OpenRouter.
Cerebras launched its inference service in late 2024.
Condor Galaxy network of supercomputers powered by Cerebras systems; Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1) features 4 exaFLOPs of FP16 performance and 54 million cores.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California unveiled a display featuring the WSE-2, titled 'The Biggest Chip In the World'.
A single CS-2 system with one Cerebras wafer trained models with up to 20 billion parameters, including GPT-3XL 1.3B, GPT-J 6B, GPT-3 13B and GPT-NeoX 20B.
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory received the Gordon Bell Special Prize for research into COVID-19 variants powered by a Cerebras CS-2 cluster.
CS-2 built on TSMC's 7nm process; WSE-2 has 850,000 cores and 2.6 trillion transistors, 40 GB on-chip SRAM, 20 PB/s memory bandwidth and 220 Pb/s fabric bandwidth.
First-generation Wafer-Scale Engine and the CS-1, a 19-inch rack-mounted appliance with a single WSE processor featuring 400,000 cores, 1.2 trillion transistors and 18 GB of memory.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partnertechcrunch.com Β· Aug 2026
Is Cerebras Systems (CBRS) Stock a Buy Following Its IPO Pullback? - Blockonomiblockonomi.com Β· Jul 2026βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cerebras do?
- Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale AI processors and systems for data centers, enabling accelerated AI training and inference at scale. The company serves AI model providers, cloud infrastructure operators, and research institutions.
- Who founded Cerebras?
- Cerebras was founded by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, Jean-Philippe Fricker.
- Who are Cerebras's investors?
- Cerebras's investors include Alpha Wave Global, Artisanal Ventures, Azure Ventures Group, Coatue Management, In-Q-Tel, Open Field Capital, Rosecliff Ventures, SV Angel.